Dekalb-Carroll-Fayette County GaArchives News.....Walker, Hardy C.'s childhood memories . ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Candace (Teal) Gravelle http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00023.html#0005680 February 10, 2007, 12:14 am "The Cleburne News" . Heflin, Cleburne Co., Alabama NEWSPAPER Issue of Thursday, APRIL 1, 1937 L.D. WALKER's FATHER (H.C. WALKER) IS 95, YET IS ACTIVE Bowdon, Ga., March 29 Atlanta (then known as Terminus), in the boyhood of H.C. Walker, Confederate veteran, was a town with only one brick building, the Rorak corner, and with but one railroad, then known as the Macon Line. He remembers also a tower which then stood atop Stone Mountain. Mr. Walker, at age 95, lives on Route 3 near Bowdon and spends part of the time with his eldest son L.D. Walker in Cleburne county, Alabama. He is still hale and hearty and "able to do some farm work." He enlisted in Company H of the Thirteen** Regiment in 1861. On August 28, 1864 he was captured by Sherman's Army and imprisoned in Atlanta for eleven weeks, during which time he says he was able to change his clothes but once. Later he was transferred to Louisville, Kentucky and finally released across from the Ohio River in Indiana, where he spent eight months before given transportation back to Atlanta. Additional Comments: ** Should be the 30th regiment: Company H, 30th Georgia Infantry Fayette County, Georgia http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/fayette/military/civilwar/rosters/ucompa nyh246gmt.txt Privates: Walker, Hardy C [Buried Bethlehem Campground Randolph County, AL] File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Linda Ayres WwLSARANDOLPH@aol.com April 23, 2006 File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/dekalb/newspapers/walkerha2103gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/gafiles/ File size: 2.1 Kb